By Sarah LanePhotography: Georgina Hurdsfield An undeniably well-received gig. If you can find a ‘Best Of Noughties Indie’ playlist that doesn’t feature at least one Kooks track, we will eat the nearest hat. The charts are littered with Sheeran and Swift. Only Stormzy gives relief. Seeking substance, we turn to Best Of playlists: now available…
By Daniel Broadley Who said punk is dead? People have been repeating the mantra since 1978, but maybe it never died. Or, maybe it did and was reincarnated through an interstellar wormhole in the form of Hello Cosmos and their trippy new single ‘Frequency Fields’. As part of the new seven-track EP Run For President which…
By Janet LaFontaine Arriving in Manchester after playing one of the most talked-about sets of Glastonbury Festival the previous weekend, Janelle Monàe turned the Castlefield Bowl into a giant celebration of inclusivity, soul, dance and future-funk that left the audience screaming for more and launched MIF 2019 in spectacular style. Since her debut in 2010…
By Callum Baker Manchester’s HOME cinema is currently playing host to David Lynch’s surreal collection of sculptures, collages and paintings as part of this year’s Manchester International Festival. The festival is seeing various corners of the city transformed into venues for showcasing a dynamic curation of contemporary works across various art forms. What sets Lynch’s…
By Louis Manchester Mayfield Railway Depot was a fitting space for this hugely ambitious project, which took two and a half years to go from inception to realisation. Once abandoned for over fifty years, Mayfield depot represents the lingering vestiges of Manchester’s renowned industrial past – now crumbling; iron rusting, water seeping through fissures. The…
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